kurimanzutto, New York
On View: November 6 – December 13, 2025
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Midnite Porridge is the first exhibition at kurimanzutto dedicated to Ming Fay. The title comes from Midnite Porridge, a self-published artist’s book gathering Fay’s sketches, aphorisms, and reflections on the connection between art, nature, and well-being. Across its pages, plants transform into human-like figures performing slow gestures of tai chi, accompanied by notes on breath and rhythm beside drawings of fruits and roots. For Fay, porridge was more than nourishment—it symbolized transformation: a process where distinct elements merge, simmer, and become something sustaining. His large-scale sculptures embody this same alchemy, turning the everyday into objects of wonder and mythology.
Fay explored the layered meanings these forms hold across cultures. His sculptures pay tribute to nature and to the diasporic networks that sustain it: the fruit vendors of Chinatowns whose displays of abundance trace histories of migration, labor, and adaptation.
Installation photos by Zach Hyman